The 172 Artworks of media Ivory and containing the word tokoku, japanese, b. 1846, ivory, 1900

Two boys fighting with brushes Kanō Masanobu

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Kanō Masanobu - Two boys fighting with brushes

Netsuke in the Form of a Dog Izumiya Tomotada

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Izumiya Tomotada - Netsuke in the Form of a Dog

The Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, United States)

Although Chinese folklore disparaged dogs, in Japan they came to be regarded positively as dispellers of evil and portenders of easy childbirth. They symbolize the eleventh year in the Chinese and Japanese 12-year cycle. In this example, the crouching animal wears a rope leash. Tomotada, a gifted an...

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Masatami (Japanese, Active Mid-1800S) - Puppy

Puppy Masatami (Japanese, Active Mid-1800S)

Dancer, Sambaso Hojitsu (Japanese, ? - 1871) (Artist)

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Hojitsu (Japanese, - - 1871) (Artist) - Dancer, Sambaso

Three Monkeys Playing with Deer Ikkosai (Japanese)

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Ikkosai (Japanese) - Three Monkeys Playing with Deer

Adoloscent Henri-Joseph Hesse

Attached to the end of a silk cord, netsuke were fashion accessories for men of the Edo period (1615–1868). These small sculptures are not only visually intriguing, but also practical. Netsuke were used as toggles to secure small personal objects such as carrying cases (inro) and tobacco pouches. Be...

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Inkstand and pen Danish Unknown Goldsmith

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Danish Unknown Goldsmith - Inkstand and pen

Imperial Palace (Petrópolis, Brazil)

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$René Jules Lalique - \$ \René Jules Lalique

Calouste Gulbenkian Museum (Lisboa, Portugal)

The body of this beautiful diadem consists of two orchids in horn and one in ivory, while a small drop-shaped topaz appears in the centre of the ivory flower. The three-pronged comb is also in horn and connected to the diadem by a gold hinge.Lalique first exhibited a bracelet made of horn at the 189...

Portrait of Victoire de Saxe Coburg, duchess of Nemours François Meuret

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François Meuret - Portrait of Victoire de Saxe Coburg, duchess of Nemours

Queen Marie-Antoinette Jean Laurent Mosnier

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Jean Laurent Mosnier - Queen Marie-Antoinette

Portrait of a Boy Marie Anne Gérard Fragonard

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Marie Anne Gérard Fragonard - Portrait of a Boy

This lively miniature, with its dynamic graphite underdrawing, quickly dashed watercolor, and gouache, was long thought to have been painted by one of eighteenth-century France’s most celebrated artists, Jean Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806). Today, it is considered part of a group of extraordinary mini...

King Louis XVI Louis Marie Sicardi Dit Sicardi

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Louis Marie Sicardi Dit Sicardi - King Louis XVI

Jewellery of Rajasthan: Gyan museum collection Gyan Museum

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Gyan Museum - Jewellery of Rajasthan: Gyan museum collection

Dastkari Haat Samiti (New Delhi, India)

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Dress Charles Frederick Worth

The Kyoto Costume Institute (Kyoto, Japan)

This dress shows tendency of downsized bustle seen in the later half of the 1880s and simplified dress silhouette. At the rear of the skirt, vestiges of the bustle style remained, but the extreme forms of the bustle style were simplified and toned down. 15 bones line the bodice, make beautiful silho...

Margin Piece of a Pyxis with a scene fromt he biblical Story of Juseph Danish Unknown Goldsmith

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Danish Unknown Goldsmith - Margin Piece of a Pyxis with a scene fromt he biblical Story of Juseph

Portrait of D. Leopoldina (miniature)Danish Unknown Goldsmith

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Danish Unknown Goldsmith - Portrait of D. Leopoldina (miniature)

Imperial Palace (Petrópolis, Brazil)

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Jean François Marie Huet Villiers - Portrait of a young lady

Portrait of a young lady Jean François Marie Huet Villiers

Portrait of a gentleman Louis Marie Sicardi Dit Sicardi

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Louis Marie Sicardi Dit Sicardi - Portrait of a gentleman

Portrait of a gentleman François Théodore Rochard

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François Théodore Rochard - Portrait of a gentleman

Portrait of a woman Joseph Daniel Von Huber

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Joseph Daniel Von Huber - Portrait of a woman

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$Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann - Cabinet \$ Cabinet \Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann

Perhaps the most important representative of French Art Deco was Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann. Ruhlmann/

Doctor Leroy Claude Bornet

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Kaiser Leon Kamm Danish Unknown Goldsmith

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Danish Unknown Goldsmith - Kaiser Leon Kamm

Johann George IV, Elector of Saxony Balthasar Permoser

Vorder- und Rückseite sowie beide Schmalseiten des Kammgriffteils sind mit Reliefs verziert, begleitet von griechischen Inschriften. In den Bogenfeldern wird jeweils eine kirchliche Architektur aus Mittelapsis und seitlichen Konchen sichtbar. Auf der hier abgebildeten Seite stehen in einer Art Tribu...

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Balthasar Permoser - Johann George IV, Elector of Saxony

The sitter, wearing a broadly flowing allonge wig, makes both a self-confident and a distrustful, morose impression. The half-length portrait shows Johann George IV (1668–1694), elder brother of August the Strong, who described him as “wrathful and melancholy”. Proclaimed Elector in 1691, he died on...